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Another baby has died in NJ this week after being left in hot car
EAST HANOVER — Another infant has died after being left in a car in New Jersey. Morris County Prosecutor Robert Carroll said East Hanover Police were called after a 6- month-old girl was noticed inside a vehicle parked in a parking lot on South Ridgedale Avenue at Route 10 in East Hanover around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 17. She was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Duran Duran Summon Halloween Enthusiasts. Announce East Coast Run
Duran Duran are summoning all Halloween enthusiasts to show up, dress up, and celebrate All Hallows’ Eve in style at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York City on Thursday, October 31. Now a highly anticipated annual tradition, The Danse Macabre Halloween Party was originally conceptualized at a...
Stream NYC screamo band OLTH's new two-song single
OLTH have been building a reputation as one of NYC’s best newer screamo bands, thanks in part to their wild live show (I caught them with Liturgy at TV Eye last year and it was batshit), and their recordings are just getting better and better too. They’re following their 2023 debut LP every day is sOmeOne’s speciaL day with a new two-song single, “fire dOve / xO,” and these are two of their strongest, most musically-varied songs yet. They’ve got their harsh, screeching, caustic screamo down pat, and they also branch off into heavy/beautiful post-metal territory on the climactic “fire dOve” and tread some Slint-like waters on “xO.”
Lambrini Girls, Ekko Astral & Pons played The Sultan Room (pics)
Brighton, UK punks Lambrini Girls are on tour with Amyl and the Sniffers‘ now, and while in they were in the NYC-area for Amyl’s Jersey City show on Saturday, they stopped in Brooklyn for a headlining show at The Sultan Room on Friday night (7/19). Vocalist and guitarist Phoebe Lunny wasted no time in hopping offstage and riling up the crowd, and they were met with roars of approval as they led everyone in call-and-response shoutalongs to free Palestine, fuck TERFS, fuck Trump, fuck Biden, and fuck the police. Their set was a whole lot of fun in addition to being staunchly political, even working in a limbo competition.
Gas leaks cost US fire departments more than half a billion dollars each year, finds study
Responding to gas leaks cost U.S. fire departments over $564 million in 2018, according to a new study published in Energy Policy. The study, led by PSE Healthy Energy, is the first to estimate the financial burden placed on first responders by gas leaks. In 2018, New York City experienced 22,090 gas leak incidents—more than the next 25 cities combined—conservatively costing the city $70 million.
Self-professed 'Wolf of Airbnb' sentenced to over 4 years in prison for defrauding landlords
A Florida man who boasted that he was the “Wolf of Airbnb” was sentenced Monday to over four years in prison for defrauding New York City landlords and a federal pandemic-relief government program.Konrad Bicher, 32, of Hialeah, Florida, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Lorna G. Schofield.The prison term of four years and three months came after Bicher pleaded guilty a year ago to a wire fraud charge. He was also ordered to forfeit $1.7 million and pay $2.2 million in restitution. He declined to speak at the sentencing.Prosecutors said Bicher operated at least 18 Manhattan apartments...
State Monitor Overides Tax Vote
JACKSON – The township Board of Education voted down a property tax increase of 9.9% but State Monitor Carole Knopp-Morris overruled the Board’s decision. The Board unanimously rejected the proposed budget. The sale of the Sylvia Rosenauer Elementary School is looming as a way to pay for next year’s education.
How NYC’s ‘professional Italians’ exploded on social media with memes you can’t fuggedabout
Post the TikTok — take the cannoli. A family of Brooklynites is championing social media creators in New York’s Italian American community who produce funny and authentic content that’s being devoured like fra diavolo worldwide. Siblings Sabino and Michela Curcio and their cousin Rocco Loguercio have run...
NYC couple sentenced to parenting class after girl killed by unlicensed son’s crash at 101 mph
The parents of a Queens teenager charged with killing his young gal pal in a high-speed crash last year were ordered to take parenting classes Monday for letting the unlicensed 16-year-old get behind the wheel of their high-performance BMW. Sean Smith, 40, the teen’s father, and his wife, 43-year-old Deo...
Plans for massive Brooklyn nightclub — with capacity for 1,000 partygoers — spark backlash: ‘Magnet for the most entitled’
You won’t find these Brooklynites in da club. Plans for a massive new nightclub in Greenpoint — which would stay open until 4 a.m. and hold up to 1,000 partygoers — are drawing fierce backlash from local officials and residents, who fear it will ruin the rhythm of the trendy, leafy neighborhood.
Pair of creeps on the loose after rape of 12-year-old on NYC rooftop: cops
A 12-year-old girl was raped by a pair of strangers on the rooftop landing of an East Harlem building Sunday evening, cops said. The two unidentified creeps — believed to be teens — sexually assaulted the pre-teen atop an apartment building at the intersection of East 112th Street and First Avenue, authorities said.
Motorcyclist from Camden County killed on Parkway in Tinton Falls
TINTON FALLS - A Camden County motorcyclist was killed in a Garden State Parkway crash Saturday night according to New Jersey State Police. At 9:37 p.m., troopers responded to a motor vehicle crash on the Parkway south, at milepost 103 in Tinton Falls, police said. Jason Ball, 46, of Stratford,...
Chair of NYC police watchdog agency resigns after criticizing NYPD in misconduct case
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2024. Donate today. The interim chair of the city’s police watchdog agency announced her resignation on Monday, after she criticized the NYPD and pressed for more power for the watchdog agency. Mayor Eric Adams appointed Arva Rice to chair the...
First responders remove animals after trailer overturns, crashes into Hunterdon County barn
READINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (Hunterdon County) – First responders removed several animals after trailer overturned and crashed into a barn in Hunterdon County on Monday morning. The crash happened at around 9:00 a.m. on Stanton Road (County Route 629) in Readington Township, officials said. According to officials, a trailer from...
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